Well the well known and recommended by you Yanks - Newegg has the following Sony laptop friendly Blueray & DVD burner http://www.newegg.com/Pro...spx?Item=N82E16827118059 which when I've looked at their slim CD/DVD writers is on par with the brand name (HP, IBM/Levono) replacement part. As for the actual creation of your own blu-ray disks....I've yet to do so with the one I have, a side effect of the way I've installed it. The PCI-E SATA 2 card I'm using's got some driver issues which affects any attempts at burning disks.
--Rod.H
--Rod.H